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Ubuntu and UserLinux to Combine?

Posted by timothy on from the plenty-of-u-to-go-around dept.

An anonymous reader submits "With all the noise about Ubuntu, and no sarge release in sight, we haven't heard much from UserLinux in recent times. Even Bruce Perens has admitted that the "lack of a Debian release is becoming a critical problem". Now, Ubuntu has invited UserLinux to combine forces. More distro consolidation -- without a corporate buyout in sight!"

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  1. I'm Not surprised by ciroknight · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The first one out with a working product tends to win the market, as long as their product is the best. And since UserLinux stagnated in a lot of trivial discussion, Ubunto got the one up on us..

    That being said, I believe that the collaberation of the two products will be a great support to the cause!!!!

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  2. Ubuntu, as a desktop and a server by alienfluid · · Score: 5, Insightful

    i personally think it is a very good move. Combining forces with UserLinux will not only increase its userbase but will allow Ubuntu to conform to the standards that UserLinux was established on. Ubuntu is a great distro that is good for the desktop and the server alike. You just got to love the apt-get. Visit Lafayette Linux Users Group at http://lug.lafayette.edu

  3. Makes sense by aCapitalist · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe it should be Ubuntu assimilates the few users of United Linux.

    I asked Jeff Waugh about this a few months ago on irc and he had said that Mark Shuttleworth and Bruce Perens had talked before, but nothing about a merger.

    I think there's a natural synergy here with Bruce Perens being an "industry insider" and Shuttleworth having deep pockets.

    And at this point in linux history I don't think a little consolidation of efforts is a bad thing.

  4. Re:server versus desktop by claes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't think that is what Debian is meant to be, but that is what it is actually used for. And this has become kind of rationalization for slow infrequent releases.

  5. Ubuntu the new Debian by affinity · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I would like to see..Ubuntu replace Debian as the base system for many of the current debian distros out there. I think with Ubuntu could promote other distros to focus work on the application and desktop layers while keeping better package compatibility.
    This could be what UnitedLinux attempted to be.
    No dis-respect to Debian or it's developers. I believe Debian as a base could have been managed better to take advantage of the many advances the "Deb based distros" have made.

    I am not a professional developer or Software Manager so take this opinion as you will....

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